Q 01/05

James Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, in which Canadian province?

A) Ontario

B) Quebec

C) Manitoba

D) British Columbia

Answer · why

A) Ontario

His father was an electrical engineer and his mother an artist and nurse; he later attended school in Niagara Falls.

Q 02/05

At 17, Cameron's family moved from Chippawa to which California city?

A) Fullerton

B) Anaheim

C) Brea

D) Pasadena

Answer · why

C) Brea

Classmates remembered him building things that 'either went up into the air or into the deep' rather than playing sports.

Q 03/05

Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College in 1973 to study which subject before switching to English?

A) Chemistry

B) Physics

C) Marine biology

D) Engineering

Answer · why

B) Physics

He left at the end of 1974 and worked as a truck driver and a high school janitor.

Q 04/05

Where did the young James Cameron teach himself special effects by reading other students' work?

A) The UCLA film archive

B) Roger Corman's workshop

C) The Fullerton College lab

D) The USC library

Answer · why

D) The USC library

He was working odd jobs at the time; a certain 1977 space opera soon made him quit truck driving for good.

Q 05/05

Which 1977 film prompted Cameron to quit his job as a truck driver and enter the film industry?

A) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

B) Jaws

C) Alien

D) Star Wars

Answer · why

D) Star Wars

Two decades later Star Wars creator George Lucas would present him with an American Academy of Achievement award.